GIRL TALK: Archie Panjabi’s (right) character has a lesbian encounter in an upcoming “The Good Wife.” (
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Used to be that married couples slept in separate beds and women didn’t have belly buttons — at least in prime-time TV.
It’s been disputed for some time who was the first TV couple to break the springs.
Some believe it was perhaps Herman and Lily Munster. They got away with it because, for one thing, they had a different physiology than humans. I mean, he was a monster and she was a vampire.
Humans and especially vampires have come a long way in the sex department since then. Take “True Blood.”
So really, how is a broadcast network ever going to compete with cable in the sex department?
After all there are only so many times you can show strip clubs with pole dancers wearing giant bikinis before people switch to the real thing on HBO.
Enter “The Good Wife,” the show that the usually straight-laced CBS is letting get it away with — if not murder — then killer, rough sex.
The show isn’t pushing the envelope as much as steaming it open a little at a time (with the steam mostly coming off Archie Panjabi’s character, Kalinda).
Now that Kalinda’s estranged husband Nick the Brit (Marc Warren) is out of jail, much super-hero woman-on-man martial arts, knife fighting and implied naughty sex ensues.
Anyway, on next week’s episode, you’ll get to see just how far CBS is willing to go to get those cable viewers.
In one scene, Kalinda and Nick are licking ice cream cones seductively while sitting on bar stools at an ice cream parlor and saying horrible things to each other. Whoops! — his hand goes under the counter and supposedly reaches into places you don’t want to know about.
Then he sticks those fingers in her ice cream cone which she then proceeds to lick.
It’s what’s implied, not shown, that is breaking down the wall.
Hey, it took a long time to get from the Munsters sharing a bed to vampires having anal sex.
Even in real-life, I assume.
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Does Brit have the X Factor?: The most surprising thing about this season on “The X Factor” is Britney Spears.
Despite sound bites showing her to be curt, sharp and nasty, she just kind of sits there looking distracted and banged-up.
It’s Demi Lovato who has surprised, and even outshone her more famous and popular popstar partnter.
Demi, with her crazy Amy Winehouse eyeliner and hairdos only Gwen Stefani could love, is warm, smart and funny, while Brit is bored and even boring.
Hey Brit, as Samuel L. Jackson might say. “Wake the f – – k up,” or you might face the “X” ax.
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Speaking of Samuel L. Jackson: Here’s my answer to his ad a la Dr. Seuss telling us that we’re all unconcerned, political morons.
Jackson told us to
“Wake the f – – k up”
Romney is scary
Don’t pass the buck.
We heard
And we saw him
Looking like Grinch
Or maybe that’s Newt
The other old Grinch!
We don’t need Sam
To get off our asses
He should see what’s out there
Or go get some new glasses.
If Jackson won’t stop
Dems you buck up
And just tell Sam to
Shut the f – – k up!